FF9 is like mom's cooking. You don't appreciate it at all when you're growing up but when you're older, go off on your own (like to college or something) then you realize how "together" mom's cooking is.

I see that with FF9. When it first came out, it wasn't as fresh, sexy, or exciting as the McDonald's we wanted as kids (esp. those with the play areas) but as we've grown and matured, we lately seem to appreciate FF9 more because it was cohesive (it did not have screwy plot holes, straight-up plot cop-outs, or brooding self-hating characters like FF7 and 8 did). And, hey, even when stuff's spiraling out of control, somehow mom pulls it all together come dinner time.

Some moms can't or won't cook. When I think of good eating (southern guy), I think of Grandma's cooking. Her cooking is like crack for fat kids.

I probably need to replay FF9 again. I wish there was some way to speed up the battle time.

My grandma's food was largely inedible to the extant that if you did eat it you'd probably need a hospital visit.

I'm not even being sarcastic. The amount of non-food items that wound up in her food (plastic, glass, clumps of hair) was astonishing, and she refrigerated all of NOTHING. I am vomiting internally just thinking about it.

The video game equivalent of my grandmother's cooking would be one of those interactive flash ads that pretends to be a game. Only you find it on some questionable Russian bittorrent website. And it gives you a virus and spews porn ads at you when you accidentally click it.

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My grandma's food was largely inedible to the extant that if you did eat it you'd probably need a hospital visit.

I'm not even being sarcastic. The amount of non-food items that wound up in her food (plastic, glass, clumps of hair) was astonishing, and she refrigerated all of NOTHING. I am vomiting internally just thinking about it.

The video game equivalent of my grandmother's cooking would be one of those interactive flash ads that pretends to be a game. Only you find it on some questionable Russian bittorrent website. And it gives you a virus and spews porn ads at you when you accidentally click it.

I'm pretty sure your grandma didn't like you.

Seriously, how in the crud do you manage to get glass in your food? Was she bringing broken bottles home from her bar fights? Good grief. I'll eat another helping of my grandma's non-glass casserole in honor for you.

My grandma's food was largely inedible to the extant that if you did eat it you'd probably need a hospital visit.

I'm not even being sarcastic. The amount of non-food items that wound up in her food (plastic, glass, clumps of hair) was astonishing, and she refrigerated all of NOTHING. I am vomiting internally just thinking about it.

The video game equivalent of my grandmother's cooking would be one of those interactive flash ads that pretends to be a game. Only you find it on some questionable Russian bittorrent website. And it gives you a virus and spews porn ads at you when you accidentally click it.

I'm pretty sure your grandma didn't like you.

Seriously, how in the crud do you manage to get glass in your food? Was she bringing broken bottles home from her bar fights? Good grief. I'll eat another helping of my grandma's non-glass casserole in honor for you.

She was making tacos and the eggbeater she was using to stir the meat started chipping off pieces of the glass bowl she was using it on or something.

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I love the Final Fantasy series, but improving with age is not something I really associate with any of them. My opinion of most of them has stayed the same. That said, IX is definitely among those I think less of now (including VIII and X). Games that I appreciate more with age tend to be the ones that do something weird or strange that I might not have understood well in my younger years but impresses me as I get older. FFIX is by design a throw-back. It does almost nothing in terms of innovation, though it does what it does reasonable well. I do appreciate its craftsmanship, but feels very bland in comparison to other games of its era.

I mostly pop in occasionally to give my two cents on certain controversial things, so if you disagree then send a PM, because I generally don't check for replies in threads in case I feel like replying and then things get heated/derailed.